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Perry, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Perry town. It lies in ZIP code area 14530. It stands on Silver Lake Inlet. The Survey maps it on the Castile quadrangle. 3,536 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,371 feet above sea level.

Perry within Wyoming County

Then and now

1905 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Perry, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Perry, surveyed 1905

On record in Perry

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 6 records

Population over time

3 figures

Perry fell from 3,945 to 3,536 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20003,945
20103,673-272 (-7%)
20203,536-137 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

96 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Perry between 2001 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 16 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined61
Arson/incendiarism16
Smoking6
Debris and open burning5
Natural5
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
10 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 July 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wyoming County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Perry: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
F.Eaton WellSaltPast Producer
Perry Salt Co.Salt WellSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wyoming County

Storms near this place

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perry in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 5 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2003Flash FloodPerry$250,000no account filed
June 2015Flash FloodPerry$100,000no account filed
July 1999HailPerry$22,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindPerry$15,000no account filed
November 2005Thunderstorm WindPerry$15,000no account filed
January 2012Thunderstorm WindPerry$12,000Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindPerry$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2002HailPerry$10,000no account filed
June 1994HailPerry$5,000no account filed
April 2023Thunderstorm WindPerry$2,000Trees and wires were downed.
August 2002HailPerry$2,000no account filed
June 2022HailPerry-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wyoming County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Silver Lake1.3 miles17
West Perry1.5 miles17
Perry Center2.3 miles17
Sucker Brook2.6 miles17
Fairview3.0 miles17
West Perry Center4.1 miles17
Buffalo Corners4.3 miles19
Oatka4.4 miles17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on PerryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q368763The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 960202. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.